Eco-friendly cooking lid

ABSTRACT

Disclosed is an eco-friendly cooking including a lid main body including a hollow body formed of heat-resistant transparent glass, openings formed on the side surface of the body, and hinge coupling units provided adjacent to the openings, inlets, each including a cover provided with one end coupled with the hinge coupling unit by a hinge to open and close the opening and including at least one air vent, and a grasping terminal formed on the upper surface of the cover, a sealing weight provided on the lower surface of the cover, a handle provided at the upper end of the lid main body and including a grasping part and a through hole formed at the grasping part, and an exhaust pipe including an exhaust pipe main body provided with a lower end inserted into the through hole and a tubular connection member combined with the exhaust pipe main body.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates to an eco-friendly cooking lid and, moreparticularly, to an eco-friendly cooking lid in which food is cookedwithout opening of the lid of a frying pan-type cooker and a magnet-typecorrugated connection tube is installed on the upper part of the lid soas to effectively exhaust steam or oil mist from the inside of the lidto a kitchen hood, to allow food and a cooking tool to be easily inputto the cooker, and to be easily cleaned after cooking.

BACKGROUND ART

In general, a frying pan lid (or cover) has a generally closed structurein which steam or oil mist is exhausted through an upper handle partand, thus, in order to put food into the frying pan or to turn friedfood, the lid needs to be opened and then oil or odor is exhausted fromthe inside to the outside of the frying pan and contaminates indoor air.

As one method to solve such a problem, Korean Registered Patent No.1303997 (Registration Date: 2013 Aug., 29, Title: Eco-friendly fryingpan lid), filed by the present applicant, discloses an eco-friendlyfrying pan lid including a hemispherical lid main body having a hollowstructure and formed of heat-resistant transparent glass, at least onecooking tool inlet including at least one first sealing window and ascreen respectively installed at the first sealing window and providedat the lower part of the lid main body, an opening and closing unitincluding a second sealing window and a cover formed of heat-resistantglass and having a handle removably inserted into the second sealingwindow and provided on the outer surface of the cover, and provided onthe side surface of the lower part of the lid main body, a handle unitincluding a grasping part and a corrugated tube installation hole formedat the end of the grasping part and provided at the upper end of the lidmain body, and a corrugated tube provided with a lower end inserted intothe corrugated tube installation hole, as exemplarily shown in FIGS. 1and 2, and the screen is cut in several directions based on a brush orthe center of the screen and formed of carbon nano-fibers or silicon.

The above technology proposed by the present applicant may maximallyprevent oil from scattering and odor from dispersing during cooking butmay cause difficulty in cleaning the screen or the cover after cookingor require repeated replacement of the contaminated or damaged screen.

DISCLOSURE Technical Problem

Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the aboveproblems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide aneco-friendly cooking lid which is conveniently cleaned during cookingand does not require a screen so as to prevent frequent replacement ofthe screen.

Technical Solution

In accordance with an aspect of the present invention, the above andother objects can be accomplished by the provision of an eco-friendlycooking lid including a lid main body including a body having a hollowstructure and formed of heat-resistant transparent glass, openingsformed on the side surface of the body, and hinge coupling unitsprovided at positions of the body adjacent to the openings, inlets, eachincluding a cover provided with one end coupled with the hinge couplingunit by a hinge so as to open and close the opening of the body andincluding at least one air vent, and a grasping terminal formed on theupper surface of the cover, a sealing weight provided on the lowersurface of the cover to hermetically seal the opening, a handle providedat the upper end of the lid main body and including a grasping part anda through hole formed at the end of the grasping part, and an exhaustpipe including an exhaust pipe main body provided with a lower endinserted into the through hole and a tubular connection member combinedwith the upper end of the exhaust pipe main body.

The sealing weight may be formed by coating the surface of a weightformed of stainless steel, copper or aluminum with non-toxic silicone.

In the exhaust pipe, the exhaust pipe main body and the connectionmember may be combined so as to be separable from each other.

Advantageous Effects

As described above, in the eco-friendly cooking lid of the presentinvention, food is cooked without opening of the lid of a fryingpan-type cooker and a magnet-type corrugated tube is installed on theupper part of the lid, thereby effectively exhausting steam or oil mistto a kitchen hood and allowing food and a cooking tool to be easilyinput to the cooker. Particularly, the eco-friendly cooking lid of thepresent invention is simply cleaned after cooking and requires noscreen, thus not requiring frequent replacement of the screen.

Further, the eco-friendly cooking lid of the present invention iscompletely hermetically sealed and may thus prevent leakage of noise oroil mist generated during cooking.

DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

The above and other objects, features and other advantages of thepresent invention will be more clearly understood from the followingdetailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanyingdrawings, in which:

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a conventional eco-friendly frying panlid in use;

FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view of the eco-friendly frying panlid of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of an eco-friendly cooking lid inaccordance with the present invention; and

FIG. 4 is a side view of the eco-friendly cooking lid.

BEST MODE

Now, embodiments of the present invention will be described withreference to the accompanying drawings.

With reference to FIGS. 3 and 4, an eco-friendly cooking lid 100 inaccordance with the present invention includes a lid main body 10,inlets 40, a handle 70, and an exhaust pipe 90.

The lid main body 10 includes a hemispherical body 13 having a hollowstructure and formed of heat-resistant transparent glass, openings 15formed on the side surface of the body 13, and hinge coupling units 17provided at positions of the body 13 adjacent to the openings 15. Here,the outer circumference of the lower end of the body 13 is combined withthe upper end of a frying pan 200. Further, in order to preventdifficulty in observing the cooking state at the inside of the lid mainbody 10 with the naked eye due to generation of fog within the lid mainbody 10 during cooking, a water-repellent coating is applied to theinner surface of the cooking main body 10.

Although this embodiment describes that two openings 15 and two hingecoupling units 17 are provided, one opening 15 and one hinge couplingunit 17 or three or more openings 15 and three or more hinge couplingunits 17 may be formed.

Further, although this embodiment describes the lid main body 10 ashaving a hemispherical shape with a hollow structure, the shape of thelid main body 10 may be variously modified.

The inlet 40 includes a cover 41 provided with one end coupled with thehinge coupling unit 17 by a hinge pin Pn so as to open and close theopening 15 formed on the side surface of the body 13, a graspingterminal 43 formed on the upper surface of the cover 43, and a sealingweight 45 provided on the lower surface of the cover 43 to hermeticallyseal the opening 15. Here, in order to prevent leakage of steam or oilmist through a gap between the opening 15 and the cover 41, the sealingweight 45 is formed by coating the surface of a disc-shaped weightformed of stainless steel, copper or aluminum with non-toxic silicone.

Further, through the inlet 40 of the present invention, food is input tothe frying pan or a cooling tool is input to the frying pan.

At least one air vent 47 is formed on the cover 41 of the inlet 40.

The handle 70 is formed at the upper end of the lid main body 10 andincludes a grasping part 71 extending to a long length so as to beeasily grasped by a user. Further, in the handle 70, a through hole 73,which communicates with an opening (or a hole) formed at the upper endof the lid main body 19 and into which the lower end of the exhaust pipe90 is inserted, is formed at the end of the grasping part 71.

The exhaust pipe 90 includes an exhaust pipe main body 91 provided witha lower end 91 a inserted into the through hole 73, and a connectionmember 95 provided with a lower end 95 a separably combined with theupper end of the exhaust pipe main body 91. Here, although the exhaustpipe 90 may be formed of metal, the exhaust pipe 90 in accordance withthis embodiment is formed of a heat-resistant synthetic resin so as toachieve light weight and, particularly, is easily separated from thehandle 70 so as to be conveniently cleaned.

The upper end of the connection member 95 may be combined with acorrugated tube communicating with a kitchen hood so as to forciblyexhaust contaminated gas, such as steam or oil mist generated duringcooking.

Further, a removable charcoal filter may be installed at the lower end91 a of the exhaust pipe main body 91 and the lower end 95 a of theconnection member 95, thus filtering oil mist.

As apparent from the above description, in the eco-friendly cooking lidof the present invention, when a user grasps and lifts the graspingterminal 43 formed on the upper surface of the cover 41, the cover 43 isrotated about the hinge coupling unit 17 and thus opened and, on theother hand, when the user grasps and lowers the grasping terminal 43,the sealing weight 45 provided on the lower surface of the cover 41hermetically seals the opening 15 and thus leakage of steam or oil mistto the outside during cooking may be prevented.

Although the preferred embodiments of the present invention have beendisclosed for illustrative purposes, those skilled in the art willappreciate that various modifications, additions and substitutions arepossible, without departing from the scope and spirit of the inventionas disclosed in the accompanying claims.

1. An eco-friendly cooking lid comprising: a lid main body including abody having a hollow structure and formed of heat-resistant transparentglass, openings formed on the side surface of the body, and hingecoupling units provided at positions of the body adjacent to theopenings; inlets, each including a cover provided with one end coupledwith the hinge coupling unit by a hinge so as to open and close theopening of the body and including at least one air vent, and a graspingterminal formed on the upper surface of the cover; a sealing weightprovided on the lower surface of the cover to hermetically seal theopening; a handle provided at the upper end of the lid main body andincluding a grasping part and a through hole formed at the end of thegrasping part; and an exhaust pipe including an exhaust pipe main bodyprovided with a lower end inserted into the through hole and a tubularconnection member combined with the upper end of the exhaust pipe mainbody.
 2. The eco-friendly cooking lid according to claim 1, wherein thesealing weight is formed by coating the surface of a weight formed ofstainless steel, copper or aluminum with non-toxic silicone.
 3. Theeco-friendly cooking lid according to claim 1, wherein, in the exhaustpipe, the exhaust pipe main body and the connection member are combinedso as to be separable from each other.